If a school has an open admissions policy and produces consistently high exam results, does it matter who runs it?

Should schools be allowed to make a profit? Should they be allowed to select pupils on the basis of religious faith or academic ability?

These are all questions that create hot-tempered debate, not least since Michael Gove vowed to wrench control of schools away from local authorities and create more independent academies and "free schools".

Last month at the Guardian Open Weekend festival debate on who should run our schools we gathered a panel of experts. Labour peer and former schools minister Andrew Adonis, Guardian columnist and school governor Fiona Millar and our education correspondent Jessica Shepherd join education editor Jeevan Vasagar in front of an audience or Guardian readers and listeners.

Leave your thoughts below.

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